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You still have to wait until March 2012 to buy your copy but Ebury Publishing – owners of BBC Books – have released the stunning cover art for the forthcoming novelization of the lost Douglas Adams serial Shada! Adapted by Gareth Roberts (The Shakespeare Code, The Lodger), the book is the official, Adams’ Estate-approved final…

Everything about Doctor Who: The Brilliant Book 2012 is brilliant: brilliant design, brilliant writing, a brilliant price – so you can imagine that a Forbidden Planet signing featuring nearly everybody who had anything to with the book (including Eric from accounting and that weird bloke from outside the office who thought black cabs were stealing…

Don’t worry about those heavy, weighty tomes sat on your bookshelf looking smarter than you – if there’s one book anyone should tell Dostoyevsky to do one with its Doctor Who: The Brilliant Book 2012 , the kind of children’s annual that’ll be readily stolen by adults across the land. For a start Dostoyevsky didn’t…

I laughed, I cried. I was moved, and fell in love with Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All. I admired Matt Smith throughout and was happy to see Lynda Baron – Nurse Gladys Emmanuel herself – playing her third guest role in Doctor Who’s long history. Long term readers of Kasterborous will probably expect me to…

This is the last full Doctor Who preview we’ll be bringing you this year, sadly, but fear not, we’ll be letting you in on what we know about The Wedding of River Song next week. But let’s focus on Closing Time first of all, an episode that sees the Doctor reunited with Craig Owens (James…

The writers responsible for some key episodes of Doctor Who over the past few months have been nominated in the Writers’ Guild Award as a group rather than individuals. Steven Moffat, Richard Curtis, Gareth Roberts, Stephen Thompson, Neil Gaiman and Matthew Graham are all listed for Doctor Who, which is nominated in the Best Television…

Shada – once the holy grail of Doctor Who episodes – is now something of a cottage industry. For an episode whose run was curtailed by industrial action it has had an active afterlife: it has been adapted into abridged video only episodes, books, audio plays, ebooks and in 2012 a novelisation by current Who…